Improvement in boiler washing-machines



F. O. WENELL.

BOILER WASHING-MACHINE. No.178-,571, Patented J'une13, 1876.

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UNITE 'rA'rEs FRANK O. WENELL, OF PLAINFIELQ, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOILER WASHING-MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 78,571, dated June 13; 1876; application filed December 11, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK O. WENELL, of Plainfield, in Will county and State of Illinois, have invented certain Improvements in Wash- Boilers, of which the following is a specification:

The construction and operation of this invention I will proceed to explain, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, makinga part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view through the center, and Fig. 2 a plan View on the top of the agitator.

In the drawings, a represents the boiler proper, furnished with the perforated false bottom B, center pin 8, agitator c i, snaphooks WW, and lid m es The clothes to be boiled are placed in on top of the bottom 13,,

around the center-pin s. As they boil the agitator may be revolved backward and forward by the crank it, as it rests on the top of the clothes, to facilitate removing the dirt from the clothes.

tween the two bottoms through the perforations w, so as to be out of the way of the The coarser dirt will fall down be clothes. The agitator consists of the shaft 0, with two'cross-bars, m m, on its lower end, and hollow, as shown at 0, so it will move on the pin up and down, to accommodate itself to the amount of clothes and keep in the center of the'tub or boiler. The cross-bars w rigor arms of the agitator, are provided with the prongs z', standing onthe extreme end of each arm, as shown in Fig. 1. These prongs are to prevent the clothes from getting on the top of the arms 00. r r are snap-hooks, to hold the lid of the boiler on while in operation.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

The boiler a, in combination with the perforated false bottom B, center-pin s, agitator c t w a, lid m c, and snap-hooks r r, all constructed, operating, and arranged as and for the purposes set forth.

FRANK O. WENELL.

Witnesses:

THos. H. HU'ronINs, T. P. F0111). 

